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Economic aspects

Up from Globalism

For decades, America’s economics and business elites have been confidently assuring their countrymen that the alarming decline of the U.S. manufacturing sector was nothing to worry about. Dying industries and…

Understanding Obamacare

by Luke Mitchell,

The idea that there is a competitive “private sector” in America is appealing, but generally false. No one hates competition more than the managers of corporations. Competition does not enhance…

Final Edition

by Richard Rodriguez,

Twilight of the American newspaper

The Economics of Occupation

by Bernard Avishai,

Let Them Eat Cash

by Frederick Kaufman,

Can Bill Gates turn hunger into profit?

Infinite debt

by Thomas Geoghegan,

How unlimited interest rates destroyed the economy

The Last Book Party

by Gideon Lewis-Kraus,

Publishing drinks to a life after death

The $10 trillion hangover

by Linda J. Bilmes, Joseph E. Stiglitz,

Paying the price for eight years of Bush

Utopia falls

by John Gray,

Plan

by James K. Galbraith,

Can Capitalism survive? No. I do not think it can. —Joseph Schumpeter, 1942 The problem is not how to save capitalism but how to save the unique and successful mixed…

Discredit report

by Adam J. Szubin,